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H. H. SUMMER.

. COMPOUND PLOW BEAM.

No. 331,342. Patented Dec; 1, 1885.

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HENRY HASELIUS SUMMER, OF SENOIA, GEORGIA.

COMPOUND PLOW-BEAM.

55.?ECIFIGATION forming part of Lettels Patent No. 331,3e2, dated December 1, 1 885.

Application filed May 4, 1895. Serial No. 164. 111. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. SUMMER, residing at Senoia, in the county of Ooweta and State of Georgia, have invented an I1nprovement in a Compound Plow Beam and Standard, of which the following is a speedcation.

The special object of the invention is to make the beam and standard of a bull-tongue or other plow integral, of suitable metal, and in such a manner as to receive the plow and handles, as hereinafter described.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then clearly pointed out in the claim.

Figure l of the drawings is an elevation in perspective and Fig. 2 a side elevation.

In the drawings, A represents the flat bar, of metal, preferably, but not necessarily, of rectangular shape. It is folded at a preferably upon a suitable former representing the exact shape of hole which is desired to be in the seat. The oblong shape, which is exhibited in Fig. 1 of the drawings, is considered by me to be the most suitable. At the outside of the upper part of seat a the drawing together of the two folds makes the two shoulders a a and the flat extension a a be tween the shoulders and beam, constitute the seat of the fastened ends of the handles B B, thus dispensing altogether with the handlebraces usually employed. In this seat I make two holes, I) I), so that the screw-bolts and their set-nuts b may rigidly secure the strong handles to the standard. The handles thus secured cannot turn or suffer any possible displacement, but in effect are the same as if formed in one piece with the standard and its beam. At the front end of the bar A,I make the usual holes, a a one above the other, so that ahook or ring clevis may be adjusted. It will thus be seen that the frame which car ries the plow F is made so strong and in such few pieces that it will give a maximum of endurance, and, indeed, if at all cared for, last a generation.

I am aware thata plow-beam has been made of a U'shaped piece, a welded piece, and a beam-bar, but mine is made in a single piece, so as to receive both handles and plowshare. I am also aware that the periphery of a cultivator-frame has been made of a metallic bar; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

The single metallic flat bar A, bent edgewise at an acute angle to form both a plowbeam and standard, said standard being folded flatwise and shouldered to form aloop-Seat for the plow-iron, as well as a seat for the handles, substantially as shown and described.

HENRY HASELIUS SUMMER. Witnesses:

T. E. ATKINSON, J. 0. SUMMER. 

